Monday, September 16th 2013
HIS Puts Out Next Generation Radeon Family SKU Names
HIS posted placeholders on its website for various Radeon Rx 200 series products, before redacting it, but not before VideoCardz took a screengrab. The placeholders reveal nothing about the products, but their names, which include GPU name, memory (type/amount), and custom cooling solution, if any. The Radeon R9 280X IceQ X² leads the pack for HIS. There's nothing known just yet, but the listing reveals 3 GB of GDDR5 memory, and a custom cooling solution by HIS. From the R9 280X, HIS jumps straight down to the mainstream R7 250, and R7 240, with IceQ and iCooler variants of each, and variants based on slower DDR3 memory. The codename "Tahiti XTL" is floating around with the R9 280X. It could be anything from a cut-down 28 nm "Tahiti" silicon, to just a low-power variant of "Tahiti" as configured and clocked on the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. The real stuff (new high-end GPUs), is reserved for the R9 290 series (if there is one).
A list of SKUs by HIS follows:
Source:
VideoCardz
- HIS R9 280X iPower IceQ X² Boost Clock 3GB GDDR5 PCI-E DLDVI-I/HDMI/2xMini DP
- HIS R7 250 iCooler 2GB DDR3 PCI-E HDMI/SLDVI-D/VGA
- HIS R7 250 iCooler 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E HDMI/SLDVI-D/VGA
- HIS R7 250 IceQ 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E HDMI/SLDVI-D/VGA
- HIS R7 240 iCooler 2GB DDR3 PCI-E HDMI/SLDVI-D/VGA
- HIS R7 240 IceQ 2GB DDR3 PCI-E HDMI/SLDVI-D/VGA
- HIS R7 240 iCooler 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E HDMI/SLDVI-D/VGA
21 Comments on HIS Puts Out Next Generation Radeon Family SKU Names
Perhaps the 28xx cards will be made through lower binned chips of the 29xx's.
HIS R9 280X iPower IceQ X² Boost Clock is a great name btw.
Better to not get hopes up for any new cards besides their flagship. Once that's out and the chips have been binned, we might see some R8 2xx XT's etc.
www.techpowerup.com/190682/techpowerup-announces-gpu-z-0-7-3.html
People can say what they want, its still called an AMD 2980 to me.
But seriously, it would be stupid not to release mid range cards, seeing a new generation of games is coming with the release of the new consoles and mid range is the area where the most sales are made. Not every upgrader is willing to shell out 400-500 on a graphics card for those new games. So I'm guessing we will hear from the R8 cards pretty soon.
Radeon HD 7850 is also the most common AMD card of the 7000 series, according to Steam Hardware Survey...
Ya'll seeing where this is going?
R9-290/R9-290X are Hawaiis...
Launch price for R9-280X will be under 649$, performance probably over GTX 780 and efficiency way over.
Like when in the context of games, other nerds talk about "upcoming IP". :banghead:
Shoot them. (figuratively, please) :nutkick:
For those who don't know: SKU = Stock keeping unit, used for inventory management. IP = Intellectual Property (covering trademarks, patents, etc.)
In conclusion, no need to worry us talking gibberisch: let's just talk like normal humans do.